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Updated: June 2, 2025
All these people you look down upon because our families were rich and important in the fifties are more up-to-date than you are, although I will admit that none of them has the woman-of-the-world air of the smartest New York women not that terribly respectable inner set in New York Aunt Mattie's and Aunt Charlotte's that just revels in looking mid-Victorian....The newer people I've met here their manners are just as good as ours, if not better, for, as you said just now, they don't put on airs.
Connie's little woman-of-the-world air very evident in this speech which had always provoked Alice in their earlier acquaintance, passed now unnoticed. Miss Hooper sat perplexed and hesitating, staring into the fire. But with that note in her pocket, Alice felt herself at once in a new and detached position towards her family. "It's money, of course," she said at last, her white brow puckering.
Fiorsen came here, and, since then, I've seen him at Count Rosek's and and " "Yes; but don't trouble to tell me, please." Daphne Wing hurried on. "Of course, I'm quite mistress of myself now." Then, all at once, the uneasy woman-of-the-world mask dropped from her face and she seized Gyp's hand. "Oh, Mrs. Fiorsen, I shall never be like you!" With a little shiver, Gyp said: "I hope not."
The charming woman-of-the-world manner had entirely disappeared, and, later on, when we descended to the cabin, at luncheon time, Mrs. Tenterden cast furtive and certainly not reassuring glances at the little mirror hanging there.
But when his thoughts began to dwell with fitting seriousness on the woman-of-the-world tone to be expected from Lady Charlotte, he folded the mental image of Emilia closely to his breast, and framed a misty idea of a little lighted cottage wherein she sat singing to herself while he was campaigning. "Two or three fellows Lumley and Fredericks shall see her," he thought.
When he returned to the piazza the Woman-of-the-World and the Girl-not-at-all-of-the-World were bidding each other a really affectionate good-by, and the woman's face looked suddenly just a little bit old but the girl's cheeks were most inordinately blooming. In unmistakable friendliness his sister-in-law extended her hand to him. "Good-by, Lendicott, old man!" she said. "And good luck to you!"
He was considerably her senior quite as much so, I decided, as the Professor was Dahlia's but on account of Camellia's woman-of-the-world air the contrast was not so pronounced. We sat through an elaborate dinner, during which I suffered more or less strain of anxiety concerning my forks.
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